Today, at CERN in Geneva in the Large Hadron Collider scientists produced an enormous collision of two proton beams setting new world record. The new record of energy created in the collision is 7 tera-electrono-volts. It is 3.5 times more than the previous record achieved in Fermilab, a collider near Chicago.
Professor John Parsons from Columbia University said for Vanity Fair that this just a beginning of what is going to happen in the LHC. He also said that these collision recreate the Universe one billionth of second after the Big Bang only on microscopic scale. He mentioned that scientists are trying to understand how universe created and if there were any particles that we don't know. However, the breakthrough discovery shouldn't take place next week, because data collection and analysis may take more time. He also categorically refused that LHC will produce black holes that may be dangerous for the Earth and its habitants.
In my opinion, LHC is a very useful instrument and in physicists' hands it may provide unexpected or shocking information on the creation of Universe. I also think that LHC is powerful, but safe and rumors that it will destroy Earth are nonsense, because black holes and the Big Bang have to do with orders of magnitude greater energies. I'm looking forward to new discoveries made at CERN.
Source: Vanity Fair
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